The Open Science Publishing Flood and Collaborative Authoring

A perspective on future publishing

I am approaching collaborative authoring from the experiences of being the director of a small publishing company. It is these experiences that inform my research of ‘future publishing’. This means caring about the integrity of all parts of a publication and over its complete life and being aware of the hidden labor and skills involved in a publication production.

What is important to Open Science now is to take on board that the transformation to ‘semantic/computational publishing’ is not only desirable/inevitable but it is now happening at an accelerated rate. Finally after 80+ years of the universal machine we can start writing again.